Well I never knew that!!!!!

@Forget Me Not wrote:

that when you look at the sky at night you are techinically time travelling, to make myself clearer the speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second (1,079,252,849 km/h) and the distance of the Earth from the Sun is 93 million miles, this means it takes 8.3 minutes for light from the Sun to reach Earth. Now if you took the same principle and extrapolated from it that could mean that the stars you see in the sky are actually the image of them from hundreds or thousands of years ago. Don’t know about you but I find that pretty neat

my mate’s uncle is actually sir patrick, so I salute you on that :wink:

@Forget Me Not wrote:

did you know that the average human being has at least nine senses. apart from sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch you also have thermoception (the ability to sense heat or its absence of on your skin), equilibrioception (sense of balance), nociception (perception of pain) and proprioception (body awareness such as knowing where your foot is without looking at it). some neurologist claim that humans have 21 senses (looks like you might need to rename the ‘sixth’ sense)

btw the brain has no pain receptors (weird)

how did I ever live without you?

the Spanish word for a sloth is perezoso, meaning ‘the slothful one’, though this is commonly confused with the word perezosa which means ‘deckchair’

Most lipstick contains fish scales

Giraffes and rats can last longer without water than camels.

In ancient Rome, when a man testified in court he would swear on his testicles.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by taking out an olive from First Class salads.

There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.

Upper and lower case letters are named “upper” and “lower” because in the time when all original print had to be set in individual letters, the upper case letters were stored in the case on top of the case that stored the lower case letters.

Coconuts kill about 150 people each year. That’s more than sharks.

The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.

If you put a drop of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death.

The phrase “rule of thumb” is derived from an old English law, which stated that you couldn’t beat your wife with anything wider than your thumb.

Charlie Chaplin once won third prize in a Charlie Chaplin look-alike contest.

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

Bats always turn left when exiting a cave.

About 20% of bird species have become extinct in the past 200 years, almost all of them because of human activity.

People photocopying their buttocks are the cause of 23% of all photocopier faults worldwide.

You share your birthday with at least 9 million other people in the world.

Everyday, more money is printed for Monopoly sets than for the U.S. Treasury.

Every year 4 people in the UK die putting their trousers on.

Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds; dogs only have about ten.

Our eyes are always the same size from birth but our nose and ears never stop growing.

If Barbie were life-size her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet two inches tall and have a neck twice the length of a normal human’s neck.

Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear by 700 times.

Title 14, Section 1211 of the Code of Federal Regulations (implemented on July 16, 1969) makes it illegal for U.S. citizens to have any contact with extraterrestrials or their vehicles.

There is actually no danger in swimming right after you eat, though it may feel uncomfortable.

The cruise liner Queen Elizabeth II moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it burns.
More than 50% of the people in the world have never made or received a telephone call.

There are approximately 100 million acts of sexual intercourse each day.

Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.

A “jiffy” is the scientific name for 1/100th of a second.

The average chocolate bar has 8 insects’ legs melted into it.

The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes.

Donkeys kill more people than plane crashes.

If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white.

In the last 4000 years no new animals have been domesticated.

If you yelled for 8 years 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

You can lead a cow upstairs but not downstairs.

The Toltecs (a 7th century tribe) used wooden swords so they wouldn’t kill their enemies.

In “Silence of the Lambs”, Hannibal Lector (Anthony Hopkins) never blinks.

A shrimp’s heart is in its head.

Lightning strikes the earth about 8 million times a day.

Around 2,000 left-handed people die annually due to improper use of equipment designed only for right handed people.